What I enjoy about travel is the ability to gain new perspectives and live alternate existences, whether it be aimless or planned, for a temporary moment in time or an extended period. I grew up in Australia with parents from Malaysia and New Zealand, and studied geography and languages through school and university; these were all factors that led me to have a multicultural upbringing and draw me to travel at various points in my life.

What is your relationship to travel/adventure, and what does it mean to you?

Travel has taught me to question things and keep curious. I’m constantly reminded that I actually don’t know that much; it’s a very humbling experience which both keeps me in check and open to new possibilities. Stay curious and you’ll always be having an adventure.

When you dig into the sand at Hot Water Beach in New Zealand, water flows to the surface to form a hot water pool. Behind me there were hundreds of tourists shoveling sand and relaxing in their own private thermal hot springs but this lady and I enjoyed a quieter view.

The European Swamp Soccer Championships were coincidentally happening on my first weekend studying in Ísafjörður, the largest town in Iceland’s remote Westfjords region. Teams from all over the world battle it out in the mud against the stunning background of the Tungudalur Valley. It’s recommended for players to duct tape their shoes to their feet.

The Yangon Circular Railway loops through urban, suburban and rural areas of Myanmar’s largest city. These children were playing an elaborate game of hide and seek through the carriages, jumping off and greeting local kids at each station before sprinting back towards he train and magically reappearing on the steps as if they had never left.

It was an incredible experience to watch an AFL match in Lajamanu, Northern Territory a couple of weeks ago. The entire community of children, adults, elders, and dogs had converged around the field while a giant crescent moon glowed above. The newly installed floodlights illuminated these amazing explosions of dust as the players ran around.

After travelling eastward for five days straight on a train from Moscow, and being confined to our carriage for ten long hours awaiting baggage and passport control, it was a relief to cross the Russian-Mongolian border and arrive at Sükhbaatar station where these kids were hooning around on their bicycles.

My mate @jason_uu recently had to transport a bus from Melbourne to Kalkarindji in the Northern Territory. He put out a call for tag alongs but none of our other friends could join, so I had a glorious choice of 22 seats for the entire journey through outback Australia. This day in Longreach, Queensland was perhaps the most bizarre of our three-week trip: we ran into Pauline Hanson in the local bakery and then walked on the wing of the pictured Qantas 747.

My grandma lives in Sandakan, Malaysia and I’m often there spending Christmas or Chinese New Year with her and my relatives. During the unbearably humid afternoons when she is taking a nap, the pool is a delightful refuge.

Having grown up in Australia, snow will always be a huge novelty for me. The dark German winters whilst I lived there were a real mindbender. The gloom really makes you appreciate the summer for what it is.

We live in a frame of mind which is determined by where and when we’re born and the kind of culture we are exposed to. Seeking what we might be outside of this frame is what I’m trying to do in my solo trips.

It’s been three years since I’ve been travelling alone. A lot of people ask whether I felt lonely during these trips. I went to the French Alps and stayed in a cabin alone for a month but felt neither alone nor scared. I’m surrounded by the splendour of nature and I meet beautiful and interesting people.

The greatest part of any adventure is the unknown: a real adventure comes from no plan, spontaneity in decision-making, meeting people from all walks of life, interacting with cultures or religions that you previously haven’t, and a sense of resetting your life with each new place or journey.

I spent years of my childhood pouring over atlases and leafing through National Geographic Magazines which ignited my travel lust. Experiencing different landscape, smells, sounds and cultures first hand makes the world seem both big and small.

Adventure has given me the opportunity to develop my character as a person and as a professional; discovering my interest in exploration came late on in my life, I was tired, impatient and my priorities were all wrong.

I am primarily interested in documenting the everyday world around me, with a particular interest in landscapes featuring human interventions that visually activate their surroundings in strangely compelling ways.

I try to go on longer trips at least once every other year and leep on any adventure that’s handed to me, both small and big ones. Without travelling I feel trapped. To see and experience new things makes life so much bigger and helps me to widen my mind and actually makes me feel more at ease with myself and life.

Travel has shaped who I am. I’ve spent most of my life chasing winters and snow. Now it’s good to live in one place but still be able to travel for work and for shorter travel missions. I guess now I seek out moments and light instead of snow.

For me, leaving the easy things behind, getting into situations that I’m not used is where it all starts. Maybe you’re not ready for it, or even intially interested in, but you go. And you figure it out along the way.

Being able to save up, drop everything and travel for months is a privilege I take for granted so often, I’ve been trying to be more aware of how lucky I am. I like to keep a balance between visiting new places and old favourites; it keeps things fresh, whilst also forging emotional ties with locations that aren’t my place of birth.

Adventure means getting out of your comfort zone. Lots good things in life can only happen after you do something uncomfortable.
Travel has completely changed my life in terms of how I see photography.

I think most of all, I am constantly pursuing new and different experiences, and travel is the most surefire way I’ve found so far that is guaranteed to play host to whatever types of new experiences you want to dive into!

Adventuring keeps the inspiration flowing for me. Either heading to new places or really exploring the areas that are close by its always great to get out and adventure somehow. Something to look forward to, to enjoy and then re-live, and do all over again!

Travel changes everything. Being on the road is so inspiring. There’s always new, refreshing things to see and capture. I love it. Most of the time I’m a homebody, but then I get cabin fever and have to see new things.

I take pictures like a tourist, mostly to create nice images and souvenirs but in a way, I feel that photography is a weak way to help you to remember. It creates images that become stronger than your memories and consumes them.

I believe travelling is the best form of education. You can get very isolated in the bubble you call your life and just getting out there and experiencing how others live theirs makes you very aware of the lovely diversity in the world.

It has opened me up to new places, new friends, and over all a new outlook on life. It has allowed me to be more confident in my decision-making and it has provided a new sense of adventure that I never had before.

I have not been in one place for more than 40 days at a time since I was 16. I like to spend 50% of the time on the road making new work and then the other 50% of the time in my studio working on the images.

Being away from your safety net for that long really makes you a more sympathetic person…I hope..I think. These days it’s shorter trips but I like to go out there you know. I feel like I get soft if I sleep in my own bed too many nights in a row.

Traveling is the best thing to achieve what some call enlightenment, not books nor teachers. Traveling since I was a little kid was the best thing that could ever happen to me, I thank my family for that.

Travel has really influenced a lot of my ideals and perspectives and has certainly given me a sharper sense of what’s actually important in life and what’s not. I find it incredibly easy to get clogged up in a lot of nonsense when I’m in the city.

Whether I was sleeping on the floor of a monastery in Tibet, at the age of sixteen, or wandering the souks of Damascus, or staying in a Yali tribal village in the highlands of West Papua, there was no location too off the beaten path or fellow human being too challenging with whom to communicate.

Traveling has enabled me the space to practice and embody my spiritual beliefs most seamlessly while exploring my freedom to new heights. I have found so much beauty in diversity while creating more space for heartfelt connections.

I spent my years in school dreaming of how to travel, so as soon as I formulated a plan, I did everything in my power to escape and hit the road. I find myself constantly in situations where I am learning both of the world and myself, and have based my life around being able to visit the places that inspire me.

The idea of searching for something new to discover always gives me something exciting to look forward to and work towards. Every adventure I embark on teaches something new, about myself, about cultures, and about the world.

There’s just this wanderlust inside of me that always makes me want to go to somewhere new. I love mountains and nature and wild places, so I try to travel to places with great natural wonders and diversity. For me there’s nothing better than exploring new places or hiking mountains together with close friends or family.

I’ve learned so much about the world through traveling. Bringing that knowledge (whether it’s how to make Pho, or what life is like on a ranch in Montana) back has made my life at home so much richer. I’ve always wanted to live a thousand different lives in a hundred different places. Traveling, and photography, let me do that.